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Abortion-related charges in the country accounted for 23% of women behind bars.

Ambali Abdulkabeer
March 24, 2026

A comprehensive documentary has revealed how several women in Senegal are being unjustly arrested, prosecuted and incarcerated for engaging in abortions regardless of the circumstances.

The documentary, which was produced by Afya na Haki (Ahaki), an Uganda-based non-profit organisation focused on advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights in Africa, in partnership with the African Institute for Investigative Journalism and Litigating Reproductive Justice in Africa, probed into abortion-related prosecutions in the country, highlighting the broader realities confronting women under Senegalese restrictive abortion laws.

Continued: https://gazettengr.com/women-unjustly-arrested-incarcerated-without-legal-representation-over-abortions-in-senegal-documentary-reveals/

African countries are trying to liberalize their abortion laws. Trump’s ‘global gag rule’ is making that difficult.
Activists say the policy has forced some countries to take a step backward

Abigail Higgins
March 5, 2020

In 2016, churches in the small southeastern African country of Malawi did something surprising: They backed a law to expand abortion access.

At the time, Reverend Alex Benson Maulana, chair of the Malawi Council of Churches (MCC), said that abortion was still a sin. But Malawi was also facing a crisis: In a country with one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world, 18 percent of those deaths were due to unsafe abortions.

Continued: https://www.thelily.com/african-countries-are-trying-to-liberalize-their-abortion-laws-trumps-global-gag-rule-is-making-that-difficult/